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Sasha

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait, Rescue dogs, Virginia Artist on August 6, 2012| 1 Comment »

This is Sasha. I painted her for the winner of a drawing that was held at Sassafras Farm in June. Remember when I went over to paint the murals there. Check it out here.

While there Suzanne had a fundraiser for the horse rescue where she got Patriot and Zip and anyone who donated $25 or more got their name entered in the drawing. Sasha’s mom was the winner.

So here she is.

So off she will go this week to her new home. Thanks Suzanne for giving the painting as the prize for your drawing. And thanks for letting me help with the fundraiser for Phoenix Equine Rescue. (See more about it here.)

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Warhol’s Shoe at Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, Virginia Artist, Warhol's Shoes on August 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was the last day of “Famous Painters Art Week” and we completed our final painting – Warhol’s Shoes. These girls did a great job all week with their paintings and I think they learned a lot about art and art equipment. Good job Tanner, Emma, Teaghan, and Mia!

Just one more week of art camp remains this summer…starting Monday.

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Hopper and Warhol

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, Hopper, impressionism, Virginia Artist, Warhol on August 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

As we wind down toward the end of “Famous Painters Art Camp” week the young artists completed their Hopper painting yesterday. They did a fantastic job with all the detail work on this one.

And then we started our final painting of the week – Warhol’s Shoes! More tomorrow on those…

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Manet and Pollack, All in One Day

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, fruit, impressionism, Manet, pollack, Virginia Artist on August 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday at Art Camp we studied two very interesting artists, Edouard Manet and Jackson Pollack. That is the beauty of these combination weeks, we compare really different types of art.

Here are the “Lemonheads”! The girls painted copies of Manet’s “Lemon Still Life”. They did a great job!

And then we started working on a Jackson Pollack like drip painting. The young artists really LOVED this part. We went to the park so we could spread out and work with really thin paint.

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More Sunflowers on Furniture

Posted in Furniture, tagged acrylic, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, sunflower, Virginia Artist on July 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Sunflower Side Table, approximately 30″ tall with 14″ square top. Available at Delilah’s for $75.

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Tall Sunflower

Posted in Furniture, tagged acrylic, fern stand, flowers, impressionism, painted furniture, plant stand, sunflower on July 28, 2012| 1 Comment »

Tall Plant Stand with Sunflower, 39″ height, 15″ top diameter, available for $75. It can be seen at Delilah’s on Main Street in Front Royal.

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Road to the Cabin

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, art lessons, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 24, 2012| 1 Comment »

This is a painting that I have done four times in the past few weeks. It is a good painting for art lessons. It works for young painters as well as more experienced ones.

You can see here that Rachel painted it recently. And so did Jacob.

He’s my youngest student. He did a great job with his painting too.

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Miss Inge

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, impressionism, Small Town Life, The Southerlands on July 21, 2012| 2 Comments »

One sunny day last week I took the paintings that the ladies at The Southerlands had completed in the last few months outside to give them a good coat of varnish. There were a BUNCH of them. I love going up there on Tuesday’s to work with these fun ladies. They always make me smile.

I guess that is why I was so shocked when I went a few weeks ago and learned that one of my favorite students, Miss Inge, had passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She had never painted before we started and she just loved what she created.

This is one of Inge’s last paintings. I will miss her smiling face and wonderful little Jewish sayings. She never let me squeeze out too much paint. “We shouldn’t waste”. I can hear her saying it now with a big, sweet smile on her face and twinkle in her eye.

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The “Masterpiece”

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Starry Night, Van Gogh on July 14, 2012| 1 Comment »

At the end of Art Camp week we always paint a “masterpiece”. This week it was Van Gogh’s Starry Night and we painted it on a 16″x20″ canvas. You can see how large it is with the young artists holding their finished work. What a fabulous job they all did. Don’t you love it.

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Day 3 and 4 of Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, barn, Cezanne, daily painter, impressionism, Matisse, post-impressionism on July 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Day 3 of Post-Impressionism Art Camp had us painting a copy of one of Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples. The young artists did a fabulous job with color mixing.

Then we did a quick miniature painting of a barn and even framed it.

Day 4 we spent almost the entire morning working on a copy of Matisse’s Red Fish. I love Matisse and while it was the hardest painting we have done in camp so far, the young artists did GREAT! For the final day of camp we are doing our “masterpiece”, an extra-large painting of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I’ll share it with you in the next post. Stay tuned!